On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you want it to run every ten minutes use: > > **/10* * * * * curl http://mysite.com/test.php > > for ten minute intervals. > > It is not clear where the extra asterisks came from, but the syntax > should be > > I composed with HTML and bolded */10 Bold translates to putting an asterisk around the text ... resulting in **/10* instead of the intended */10 > */10 * * * * curl .... > > Strictly speaking, it is not 10 minute intervals; it is every multiple > of 10. So if you save your crontab at 7:09, the job will still run at > 7:10, not 7:19--it won't figure out the current time and run every ten > minutes from then. (Nobody here mentioned it, but I've seen it come up > in other contexts.) > > Good point ^^ > >> and i waited for 10 mins to get a message echo to my console. the > message > >> is displayed in my browser when the php script( > http://mysite.com/test.php) > >> is loaded via my browser. The message is also shown on my console when > d > >> curl command is run direct from the console. > >> > >> the problem is getting the message from the cronjob. > > What message? If you are hoping to see the curl output, then ... > > >> note , i logged in as root user. > > ...you need to check root's mailbox. If you haven't checked there yet > you should do so. If you want to do something else with the output, you > need to specify what that is. > > If it's not there, then as the previous poster mentioned check > /var/log/cron. > > --keith > > -- > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //